The images are heartbreaking: thousands of infants born with small, misshapen heads, the result of a rare neurological disorder, called microcephaly, which can cause a myriad of intellectual and developmental disabilities. ...

Yale University sociology professor Andrew Papachristos leads a team of researchers that collects information on an all-too-common occurrence in cities like Chicago, Boston, Newark, Cincinnati and Oakland, California: gun ...

Just like early exposure to any other language, early exposure to sign language will support learning language later, whether it's sign or spoken
It's widely believed that the younger you are, the easier it will be for you ...

Why would an innocent person accused of a crime tell investigators he's guilty? Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has spent decades researching that question, and says the answer ...

A wonderful thing about basic research is its tendency to produce advances researchers hadn't anticipated. Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah Laszlo, for instance, found her early childhood learning studies took an unexpected ...

Lexie is an active, healthy 2-year-old and already lending a hand, or more specifically her wrist, to science. She's helping researchers test sensors designed to gauge something particularly difficult to measure scientifically—emotional ...

Infants constantly explore their environments, toddling and crawling around while at the same time laying the cognitive foundation that they'll use for learning later in life. But how can parents and doctors foster that kind ...